By Phillip Carter Daily Bruin Staff SAN FRANCISCO — Seizing the spotlight at an otherwise tepid Board of Regents meeting, UC Berkeley Chancellor Chang-Lin Tien kicked off the public phase of that campus’s $1.1 billion "New Century" fundraising campaign last week – the largest ever for an American public university. Read more...

By John Digrado Daily Bruin Senior Staff NORTHRIDGE — Buffered from the chants and shouts of anti-Proposition 209 protesters, the hotly-contested debate between former Ku Klux Klan member David Duke and Los Angeles civil rights activist Joe Hicks took place on schedule and with little interruption Wednesday. Read more...

By Phillip Carter Daily Bruin Staff SAN FRANCISCO — In the best financial year for the UC system since 1990, the University of California Board of Regents voted last week to give its top administrators a "modest" pay raise. Read more...

By Marie Blanchard Daily Bruin Senior Staff "California is back," said Kathleen Connell, the California State Controller at the quarterly Anderson Business Forecast conference early last week. Read more...

By Brooke Olson Daily Bruin Staff NORTHRIDGE — As Wednesday’s affirmative action debate inside the California State University at Northridge Student Union remained relatively under control, helmet-clad riot police used rubber bullets, tear gas and batons to enforce orders given to protesters outside the center. Read more...

By Brooke Olson Daily Bruin Staff Last week, the first dean of UCLA’s School of Theater, Film and Television announced that he would step down from his position following the 1996-97 academic year after seven years at the helm of the nationally ranked school. Read more...

By Brooke Olson Daily Bruin Staff Police are still searching for a suspect wanted in connection with the Sept. 14 murder of a UCLA Central Ticket Office employee. Read more...